[Hiring] Python Team Lead @Fliff

Role Description

We’re looking for a Python Team Lead to join our Integration team, which owns a broad set of critical integrations across the product. The team is responsible for integrations with KYC providers, geolocation services, payment methods, and other external systems that are essential to product operation and user experience.

Our Stack: Python, Django, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, AWS

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for a team
• Take full ownership of backend features and improvements, from design through implementation, deployment, and production support
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services using Python and Django
• Build and maintain integrations with external systems, including KYC, geolocation, and payment partners, and other third-party services
• Work closely with product and engineering teams to scope and deliver new integrations
• Implement observability across integration flows, including monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Write unit and integration tests to ensure system reliability, prevent regressions, and improve overall test coverage and testing practices
• Support production issues and participate in on-call rotations

Qualifications

• Experience leading and managing a team of at least 3 engineers
• At least 5+ years of development experience, with Python as the primary language and strong experience in API and system integrations
• Proven experience integrating third-party APIs, with deep understanding of webhooks, callbacks, idempotency, and failure handling
• Payments and KYC integrations are a strong plus
• Experience with observability tools to monitor and troubleshoot production integrations
• Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and concurrency
• Experience in architecture design of highly loaded and scalable solutions
• Strong understanding of the full software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis to deployment and production monitoring

Requirements

• Great to have experience in early-stage startups and fast-paced engineering environments
• Experience in writing automated tests, measuring test coverage, and defining test automation strategies
• Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, Grafana
• Experience in sports/betting industries

Company Description

We are a multinational company with our headquarters based in Philadelphia, and offices in New York, Austin, and Sofia, Bulgaria. Wherever we are in the world, we pride ourselves on being a close-knit, focused team that is welcoming and friendly, and the work that we do is always interesting and rewarding.

• Welcoming and Friendly: We want to reflect the diversity of the cities we serve. By creating an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive, we’ll make Fliff better for employees and customers alike.
• Lively and Creative: We respect and value each other’s ideas, experience, and expertise. There is no such thing as a bad idea; only ideas that are executed and ideas that are discarded after consideration.
• Stimulating and Rewarding: We know bright minds love a challenge, and we understand your desire to see your hard work pay off. We’ll make sure your daily tasks align with your career ambitions as we grow together.